Frankie Cosmos Close It QuietlyInner World

Frankie Cosmos' fifth album Inner World - which features "One Year Stand" and additional standouts "F.O.O.F.", "Aftershook," and "Empty Head," - was co-produced with Nate Mendelsohn and Katie Von Schleicher at Figure 8 Recording in Brooklyn, New York, mixed by Mendelsohn and Von Schleicher, and mastered by Josh Bonati at Bonati Mastering. The Inner World Peace album art also features illustrations from band member Lauren Martin.

Instant centerpiece "One Year Stand" is a small snowglobe of intimacy recalling the softest moments of Yo La Tengo's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out. Lifted by Martin's drones on Hammond organ and synthesizer, it could be played on repeat in a loop. The voices of Kline and Martin, who have sung together since middle school, blend seamlessly. Throughout the album there are plays on the notion of feeling seen or invisible, as in "Magnetic Personality" when Kline sings "ask me how I am and I won't really say," or in "One Year Stand" when she says "maybe I'm asking myself."

Inner World Peace excels in passing on the emotions it holds. When in the towering "Empty Head" Kline sings of wanting to let thoughts slide away, her voice is buoyed on a bed of synths and harmonium as tranquility abounds. When her thoughts become hurried and full of desire, so does the band, and she leaps from word to word as if unable to contain them all. As a group, they carry it all deftly, and with constant regard for Kline's point of view.